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SAS in the media

In short piece in the Mail newspaper Professor Barry Smith , director of the Institute of Philosophy ( IP ) and founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses ( CENSES ), says it is possible to smell when it is going to rain. He explains that air pressure falls and humidity increases when it is about to rain, and our noses act like a barometer, picking up these subtle changes in the air. ‘Humidity makes smells more intense.

After a decade long battle fought by the Guardian newspaper, the UK Supreme Court has ruled that secret letters sent by Prince Charles to government ministers can be published. Professor Philip Murphy , director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies ( ICWS ) and professor of British history, has written an analytical piece for The Conversation on the culmination of what has been a very lengthy and expensive legal process (nearly £275,000).

Dr Asa Cusack , research fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies ( ILAS) , has written a feature for the Huffington Post. In ‘Spain's Podemos just latest victim of toxic Venezuela monster!’, Dr Cusack discusses the latest tactic Spain’s traditional parties are using to try and halt the remarkable rise of Podemos, the left-wing political party founded in 2014 by a former university lecturer. Dr Cusask says Venezuela has become such a toxic brand that it can be used to tar political opponents everywhere.

Professor Andrew Hussey , director of the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies ( CPCS ), has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, commenting on claims that French prisons, which have come under the spotlight in the past two months, are key recruiting grounds for Islamist extremists. Half of all inmates in France are thought to be Muslim and the government is now pushing forward with a series of measures designed to counter radicalism.

Professor Philip Murphy , director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies ( ICWS ), has been quoted in a Times article about the Queen’s decision to open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta later this year after missing the 2013 summit in Sri Lanka.

Professor Clare Lees, Director of the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (the AHRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnership which brings together the School of Advanced Study , University College London and King's, London), recently discussed 'Beowulf', on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time programme. Composed in the early Middle Ages by an anonymous poet, the work is considered one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon literature. Professor Lees was joined by fellow academics from the University of Oxford.
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